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Uncommon headlines: Rising Republican star (Chris Christie!) embraces solar
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signs a big solar bill, demonstrating the bipartisan value in supporting renewables.
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Ex-McDonald’s exec opens a healthy fast food restaurant
Mike Roberts, former president and CEO of McDonald's, co-founded Lyfe Kitchen, a restaurant that aims to do healthy food on a fast-food scale.
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Carly Rae Jepsen communes with nature in her new video
If you were looking for the perfect capstone to your “driving your tiny car to the woods for an awesome camping adventure” mix, then your problems are solved: Just throw the whole playlist away and replace it with this song 19 times.
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Massive rain causes havoc in Beijing as infrastructure fails
Beijing's weak infrastructure lead to 37 deaths after a torrential downpour. You don't think much about your sewer system until it stops working.
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These photos of Earth are so gorgeous they belong in a museum
For 40 years, satellites have been chilling up above the planet, capturing images of the surface for scientific purposes. But it happens that many of these photos look like incredible paintings. Here are a few of our favorites.
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Maybe don’t tell children they can hug a rabid bat
Hey! Are you a jackass? Then you could probably use this advice: As much goodwill and admiration as you may think you’re earning by knowing everything about everything, I guarantee you it will not make up for what you lose when you tell a 10-year-old to pet a rabid bat. Last week a bunch of […]
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The best pictures of trucks inside trucks inside trucks
Here’s a kind of awesome way to get trucks off the road: put them inside trucks inside other trucks, like some kind of truck turducken. Turtrucken. It’s three, or four, or nine trucks for the carbon footprint of one! This picture came originally via Reddit, so there’s little context, other than that it was taken […]
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Food mega-wholesaler Sysco pledges to liberate pigs from crates
The last year has seen a wave of companies reject one of the worst factory farm practices out there. But Sysco's pledge might have the most impact yet.
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How’s the weather, Grist readers? Oh. Right.
We asked you to share photos of the crazy weather you've seen lately, and the results were just as ridiculous as you'd expect.
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Real world: For residents of one troubled town, climate change seems a long way off
In a town where jobs, violence, and housing are daily concerns, global warming doesn’t make the short list, a local hip hop artist and urban farmer tells the Slow Ride Stories crew.
